Digital Storytelling with Minimal Clicks: Reading and Writing Skills

Digital storytelling is an ideal arena for technology integration since it is applicable to learners of all ages, in all content areas. Considerable academic research supports the value of finding ways to encourage students to read and write in greater quantities. The contagious energy with which students often embrace digital storytelling projects can translate into better reading and writing skills as well as 21st century digital literacy skills.

Referenced Links:
  1. “96 percent of teens use social-networking tools: Survey reveals schools have a huge opportunity to harness technology for instruction.” (eSchoolNews 15 August 2007)
  2. National School Board Association's summer 2007 report "Creating and Connecting - Research and Guidelines on Online Social - and Educational - Networking" (PDF)
  3. Scholastic’s “2008 Kids & Family Reading Report- Reading in the 21st Century: Turning the Page with Technology” (PDF) - A related blog post is available too
  4. Celebrate Oklahoma Voices learning community (includes shared videos)
  5. Celebrate Oklahoma Voices main project website
  6. Mabry Middle School Storytelling Examples
  7. Responsibility comes with POWER
  8. Web-posting photos to Flickr
  9. VoiceThread
    1. VoiceThread (main website)
    2. VoiceThread step-by-step slideshow (PDF)
    3. Bill Ferriter's "Using Voicethread for Digital Conversations" (includes printable handouts)
    4. VoiceThread for Education
    5. The Great Book Stories Project (open to all students and teachers)
    6. VoiceThread Examples
      1. Reflections on the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
      2. New Federal Holidays (by students of New York school librarian Karen Kliegman )
      3. K-7 Mathcasts 500 Project (from Math247)
  10. 50 Ways to Tell a Web 2.0 Story (a Digital Story, by Alan Levine)
  11. Flickr
    1. Tell a Story with 5 Photos for Educators Group
    2. Six Word Story Group
  12. DigiTales: The Art of Telling Stories by Bernajean Porter
  13. The Center for Digital Storytelling
  14. Cell Phone Audio Recording
    1. GabCast
    2. GCast
  15. Additional resources on Digital Storytelling